The voting members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America have sent in their ballots, and the drama is simmering. The results of this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame vote will be announced Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET on MLB Network and simulcast on MLB.com.

Those 24 newcomers joined 13 holdovers, all of whom hope to earn the 75 percent of the vote necessary for induction. That group is led by Jack Morris (66.7 percent last year), Jeff Bagwell (56%), Tim Raines (48.7%), Alan Trammell (36.8%) and Edgar Martinez (36.5%).

A few facts and figures about this year’s vote, past years’ trends and future elections, courtesy of the Hall of Fame:

• The Class of 2013 will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 28 at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, N.Y. In addition to any players elected by the BBWAA, umpire Hank O’Day, New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and 19th century player Deacon White will be inducted after being elected by the Pre-Integration Committee.

• Forty-four players have been elected in their first year of eligibility. In seven of the past 12 elections, at least one player has been elected in his first year of eligibility.

• Members of the BBWAA have elected from zero to five candidates in each of the 69 elections. Voters are allowed to vote for a maximum of 10 players each year. The last time no candidate was elected was 1996; the last time five candidates were elected was 1936 (the Hall’s inaugural year). On 26 occasions, only one player has been voted in. On 25 occasions, two players have gotten the call from the Hall.

• Forty-eight Hall of Famers spent their entire career with one team. Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio, both of whom played only for the Astros, could be the first pair of teammates who played only for the same franchise to be elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA in the same year since Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle in 1974. The same is true of Bernie Williams and Don Mattingly, both career-long Yankees who again are on this year’s ballot.

• No player has been elected to the Hall of Fame unanimously. The three who have come closest: Tom Seaver (98.84%), Nolan Ryan (98.79%) and Cal Ripken Jr. (98.53%).

• Sixteen players have fallen short of election by 11 or fewer votes, though all got in eventually. The most recent was Roberto Alomar, who was elected in 2011 after falling eight votes shy in 2010.